A rock used to prop open a door for more than 30 years has been identified as a rare type of meteorite.
Saga Vanecek discovered the pre-Viking-era relic while swimming near her family's holiday home in Sweden.
Scientists in Australia have been investigating what caused an otherwise normal orange to turn purple.
19-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang ended up lost at sea after a floating hut he had been working in drifted away.
Police in London have reached the end of their investigation in to the deaths of hundreds of pet cats.
A new study has revealed that most people seem to appreciate bees but find wasps annoying and dangerous.
The final resting place of one of the world's most famous ships has reportedly been found after 240 years.
Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico has been shut down by the FBI under mysterious circumstances.
Old shoes have been mysteriously appearing on a traffic island at a road intersection in the town of Granby.
The discovery of ancient cheese sieves has pushed back the origins of cheese making in the Mediterranean.
Authorities in northern Austria have been investigating multiple sightings of a rogue kangaroo this week.
There is growing evidence to suggest that the final report in the MH370 case contains incomplete data logs.
Authorities have determined what happened to a cargo vessel recently found drifting with no cargo or crew.
A Mayan pictographic text dating back over 900 years has finally been confirmed as authentic by researchers.
Astronauts have been working to locate and seal a small leak that has opened up aboard the orbiting outpost.
Residents of the Russian city of Taganrog have been inundated with huge swarms of winged insects this week.
A huge squid measuring 4.2 meters long has been discovered washed up on the Wellington coastline.
A video showing a life-like humanoid robot walking up a driveway has been causing quite a stir online recently.
The number of people reporting sightings of UFOs has been in sharp decline and nobody is quite sure why.